How Green Becomes Wood

"So it can inspire me in my work," Dark replied, lifting Ivy up off the ground quickly enough to make her squeal, "Right, Tifla? And if you ever draw me pictures of creatures, Baba will carve them for you and make them real."

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Cooger chuckled, acting like she was asking just sooooo much of him, and then lifted up a significant portion of scrap metal to help carry it for her.
 
"If she turns out half as artistic as you, you're going to have to spread it around," Alec chuckled. He pointed to a sign. "Gift shop that way! Not even I can mess that one up."

Xander glanced at Dark and Daizi. "I wonder if getting him a girlfriend will be like getting him a guide person."

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Lex made no secret of admiring his strength, playing it up comically for effect. She gathered what was left and followed Cooger, grinning and honestly enjoying the sight of him helping her out. The muscles were nice, too.
 
"Will you be artistic?" Dark asked Ivy sweetly, pausing his stride so he could look her in the eyes, "What do you think, Tifla?"

"It'd be very rebellious of her not to be, given this family," Daizi chuckled.

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Cooger absolutely knew she was playing things up a bit, but it was still flattering and made him feel good about himself. It was no harm to flex a little bit in response!
 
"Is that true?" Dark asked his daughter, "Will you be incredibly artistic?"

Ivy just grinned at him, and reaching out, stole his Sad Dad hat right off of his head and put it on herself. Naturally, the hat dropped right down and covered the entire top half of her head.

"Oh no," Dark replied, and although his expression hardly changed at all, he felt certain he was doing an excellent job at looking utterly shocked, "You stole my hat, you are a thief, not an artist!"
 
"It seems she was caught pretty quickly," Daizi laughed, putting together what must have happened.

"Can Ivy-Qadira even see?" Dark asked, tipping the hat backwards on her head so her eyes were visible, "There is Ivy-Qadira!" Ivy laughed at him and then pulled the hat back down over her eyes.
 
"She might be," Daizi laughs, "But she steals my sunglasses all the time."

As they continued to walk to the gift shop, Dark kept tipping the hat backwards to show Ivy's face, which kept making her laugh and hide it again. He guessed once they were in the gift shop with so many toys to tempt her, she wouldn't be as interested in this game, but for the meanwhile, it was heartwarming to see her so easily amused.
 
"Fun stuff!" Alec cheered and dove into the gift shop with abandon. He would be good and not try to buy half the store, but looking and pretending like he could buy anything and everything gave him a lot of joy. Even if he only walked out with something small like a magnet.

Xander frowned and studied the shop, developing a plan of attack before marching in. He had very specific things he would consider buying. If he couldn't find them, he would buy nothing.
 
Neither adult cared much about buying themselves something, but they did look forward to buying something for whichever of their children wanted a souvenir. Naturally, they brought Ivy over to the big wall of stuffed animals so she could make a decision. On a usual day, they didn't show her so many choices so as to not overwhelm her but this didn't seem to be a usual day.
 
Xander found a very nice magnet that could work to be a souvenir for Ivy's first visit, and he took it to Alec to approve it, which he did. Alec showed Xander a desert tortoise plush that was far more reasonably sized than the real tortoises they'd been petting, wanting very much for Xander to get it. Xander said he'd consider it, and Alec turned to survey the collection of "Save the Chubby Unicorn" merchandise. He really wanted to get one, but he wasn't sure which. Bag? Shirt? Mug? Xander went looking for a Przewalski horse piece of merch, but out of everything he saw, he couldn't find anything related to the wild horse, and he wasn't in love with anything zebra. It looked like he was probably going to get the tortoise, which did, in fact, amuse him, but he kept browsing idly in case anything else begged to be taken home.
 
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